First attestation for the Testimonium Flavianum?

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First attestation for the Testimonium Flavianum?

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Who first attested to the presence of the Testimonium Flavianum, and in roughly what year did they do it?
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The first noncontroversial attestation for the Testimonium is from Eusebius, early century IV. It appears thrice in his writings, once in the Demonstration of the Gospel (AD 311?), again in the Theophany (AD 324?), and again in the History of the Church (AD 325?).
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Thank you Ben!!!
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No problem. You can access a pretty complete list of all the witnesses to the passage here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2812#p62626.

ETA: The textus receptus is just what the manuscripts, all medieval, have; and Origen is, if anything, a witness against the passage. So we start with Eusebius.
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